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...plate or a windshield. Desperately short of foreign exchange, the government of President Kaunda prefers to import new vehicles through aid programs rather than buy the spare parts necessary to repair the old ones. In Zambia and Tanzania, locomotives badly needed to haul copper and agricultural produce sit on railroad sidings because no one can fix their hydraulic-brake systems...
Shoppers seem to feel a sense of urgency this year, inspired partly by spot shortages of such popular gifts as exercise wear and stuffed toys. Said Michael Brownlow, a railroad conductor from Doraville, Ga., who took a day off last week to shop in a suburban Atlanta mall: "If you wait until the last minute, things will be gone. I had to get up Sunday morning and stand in line for half an hour just to get one of the toys my son wanted." Parents often have to act like detectives to find such other scarce playthings as Return...
...week before the game, something John Harvard is all too familiar with. One of the fiercest small college rivalries in the country is between Wabash and De Pauw Colleges in Indiana. Each year the two schools vie for the Monon Bell--donated to the two schools by the Monon Railroad Co. in 1932--the winner holding the bell until the next game. Not surprisingly, many times students from the losing school have tried to steal the bell. The last successful attempt came in the late '60s when a Wabash student disguised himself as a Mexican reporter and secured an interview...
...breach opened in a large earthen dam at a fertilizer plant in Stebnik, four miles southeast of the city of Drogobych, near the Polish and Czechoslovak borders. The break allowed a 20-ft.-high torrent of concentrated salty wastes from the plant to cascade down hillsides, sweeping away railroad tracks, ripping up roads, ruining farmlands, and smashing homes and workshops until it reached the Dniester River 15 miles away...
...same time, they were developing a taste for nationally recognized brands and designer-name merchandise because these goods symbolized higher quality, not to mention status. It was not long before consumers discovered that they could get name-brand goods more cheaply in the converted warehouse near the railroad tracks than they could in the slightly shabby downtown store where Mother had always shopped...